Ativan helped with anxiety, but I only took it when I needed it back then.

Remeron was hell. It worked for my depression and anxiety for about 8 months I believe I was on it.

I gained weight that caused my depression to be worse the side effects were horrible. I ate more, I slept more, I had trouble getting up, I was drowsy all the time. I would wake up freaking out from time to time sitting straight up in bed wondering if I took my pill or not before bed, that never happened with me before. Use to freak me out.

After a certain amount of time the meds stopped working for me, I went off of it and onto Effexor, and the withdrawals were terrible, I felt like I had to be in a dtox program.

However once it was completely out of my system my weight went down, and I was pretty much back to my original size.

Just didn't like being on it at all.